My guess is that Vice didn't want to release this next single from Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand until they could be sure the GA crew weren't still on the lam in India. Well worry not publicists, the band is safely engaging in IM sessions from King Khan's house in Berlin, and that dude is a slightly more liberal Indian than the ones they fled...

Atlanta's Black Lips like to portray themselves as don't-give-a-fuck party-rockers dancing on the edge of the abyss, the kind of band that puts on chaotic shows in underground Tijuana and gets run out of the second most populous nation on Earth (er...). But the funny thing about all that is how simple and approachable their music is on record. "...

While Motley Crue call themselves the most notorious band in rock and roll, their exploits are rather tame (or is it lame?) when you compare them to what the The Black Lips just went through in India.

Photo by Arjun S RaviUnsurprisingly, the real story of what happened to the Black Lips in India is way less fun than previously thought. There were no high-speed chases, no gunfights, no arrests. And there wasn't even full-frontal nudity! Just mooning. Boo.Vice has just posted an interview with drummer Joe Bradley , in which he explains the who...

In "The Black Lips vs. India: 1-0," the Atlanta garage rockers explain that after "being held by police for indecent exposure during our most rawkus set in Chennai atthe Campus Rock Idol showcase," they slipped out an emergency exit then the country rather than deal with the reported "tuberculosis, violence and live maggots" at Chennai's prison....